Transcriber’s Notes
Inconsistent, archaic and unusual spelling, hyphenation, spacing of abbreviations and capitalisation used in the source document have been retained. Missing and unnecessary quote marks have not been corrected, unless listed below. The same applies to apparently missing and unnecessarily repeated words have not been deleted, except as listed below.
Depending on the hard- and software and their settings used to read this text, not all elements may display as intended.
The spelling of proper and geographical names has not been standardised (Macauley / Macaulay, Findlay / Finlay, Nallow / Narrow, Jenning / Jennings, Gollupchick / Gollupchik / Golupchick / Golupchik / Goluptichick, Talford / Talfourd, Nichol / Nickol / Nicolls, Arnot / Arnott, etc.)
The differences between the Table of Contents and the text itself have not been rectified.
Page 22, cassada: possibly an error for cassava.
Page 209* and 210* (between pages 210 and 211) were numbered as such in the source document.
Changes made
Footnotes have been moved outside text paragraphs.
Some obvious minor misprints and typographical, formatting and punctuation inconsistencies and errors have been standardised or corrected silently.
References to Questions 7958, 7961, 7965, 7967 and 7970 have been changed to 7958*, 7961*, 7965*, 7967* and 7970* respectively cf. their numbering in the text.
Page vii: Page number 225 changed to 235
Page 75: question number 5052 changed to 5552
Page 103: closing quote mark deleted after ... on the vessel.
Page 130: closing quote mark added after ... without delay,
Page 133: second Question 6785 changed to Question 6785*
Page 144: paragraph number 6875 (second occurrence) changed to 6876.